Radiator-cap ornament.



F. R. DAY.

RADIATOR CAP ORNA APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1.165 652, Patented Dec. 28, 1915.

FRANK R. DAY, OF FALL BRUOK, CALIFORNIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1915,

, Application filed March 2, 1915. Serial No. 11,531.

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that-T, FRANK It. DAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fall Brook, in the county of San Diego and State of California, have invented a new and useful Radiator-Cap Ornament, ofwhich the following is a specification;

My object is to make an interesting orna ment for the radiator cap of automobiles andmy invention consists of the novel fea tures herein shown, described and claimed.

Figure l is a side elevation of the dancing devil comprising my ornament for radiator caps. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a vertical central sectional detail onthe lines 33. of Figs. 1 and 2.

The body 1 of the image is, when com pleted, an integral rigid structure, the opening or hearing 2 is formed horizontally through the shoulders and a shaft 3 is rotatably mounted in the opening 2. The arms 4: and 5 are fixed upon the ends of the shaft 3 preferably in a straight line, that is-when one arm extends upwardly, the other extends downwardly. The arm 4 is formed of sheet metal or other material, like a blade, and the inner edge is turned at right angles to the face to form the flange 6. The arm-5 is identical in construction with the arm-a, there being a flange 7 corresponding to the flange 6. ln fixing the arms 4: and 5 to the shaftv3, the planes of the arms are set at right angles to each other, that isthe flat face of the arm l is radial to and parallel with the shaft 3, while the fiat face of the arm 5 is crosswise of the shaft. The tail 8 has a nipple 9 inserted into the body 1 and soldered. The body 1 stands upon and is rigid with a circu lar fiat pedestal 10. The image thus constructed is intended to be a conventional representation of a devil.

The lug 11 extends downwardly from the center of the pedestal 10, a p1ntle12 is screw-seated up into the lug 11, a bearing sleeve 13 is inserted downwardly through the vertical opening in the center or the radiator cap it, a lock nut 15 is screw-seated upon the bearing sleeve below the cap it, and the pintle 12 is inserted downwardly through the bearing sleeve 13 and held in position by a spring cotter 16, The upper part l? of the bearing opening is larger than the lower part 18, there being a cupped seat 19 at the uncture of the parts 17 and 18, and the upper part of the pintle 12 fits the part 17 and the lower part of the pintle 12 fits the part 18, there being a seat face 20 on the pintle fitting the seat 19 to form an end thrust bearing for supporting the image so that it will turn easily and so as to make a close joint like a valve seat to prevent water in the radiator from slopping or boiling over.

When the cap 14: is applied to the radiator and the automobile started, the action oi the wind will cause the arms 4 and 5 to operate, thereby oscillating the body 1 upon the pintle 12 and the action of the machine and the action of the wind will cause a fantastie dancing spectacle, one of the principal fea tures of which is the irregularity of the action. The body will spin one way and then the other way and then oscillate a little one Way and a little the other, the arms will rotate one Way and then the other, etc. The arms, or fan blades, represent the devils wings and one interesting feature of the device is the uncertainty of what it is going to do next.

The details oi construction may be varied in many ways without departing from the spirit of my invention, as set up in the following claims.

li claim:

I. A radiator cap ornament, comprising a pedestal, an image standing upon the pedestal, a pintle extending downwardly from the pedestal and having a shoulder intermediate of its ends, a bearing sleeve fitting the pintle and having a shoulder in the bearing opening intermediate of its ends for supporting-the shoulder of the pintle, a radiator cap, the bearing sleeve extending through the center of the radiator cap and having a shoulder upon its upper end for engaging the top of the cap and'a lock nut screwed upwardly on the bearing sleeve against the lower face of the cap, so as to hold the hearing sleeve rigid with the cap.

2. A. radiator cap ornament, comprising a pedestal, an image extending upwardly from the pedestal, a shaft rotatably mounted horizontally through the Image, fanblades fixed upon the ends of the shaft, the

planes at the tan-blades being at right ltlli angles to each other, a pintle extending sleeve being rigidly mounted through the downwardly from the pedestal and'having radiator cap and a pin inserted through the a shoulder intermediate of its ends, a bearpintle below the end of the bearing sleeve.

ingsleeve fitting the pintle and having a FRANK R. DAY. shoulder in the bearing opening intermedi- Witnesses: ate of lts ends for supporting the shoulder JOSEPHINE EINGENBURG,

of the pintle, a radiator cap, the bearing J. C. GRAFIIIN. 

